{"id":10324,"date":"2015-02-13T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10324"},"modified":"2015-02-13T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:40:17","slug":"normal-service-is-resumed-%e2%80%93-collision-and-errant-car-on-tracks-trouble-metrolink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10324","title":{"rendered":"Normal service is resumed \u2013 collision and errant car on tracks trouble Metrolink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days has seen more problems for Manchester Metrolink with cars once again causing problems. On Tuesday 10th February a car drove into a tram close to St Peter\u2019s Square and this was followed just two days later by a car managing to make a wrong turn and finding itself on the tracks at Baguley.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The first incident happened shortly before 2000 on 10th February and involved M5000 <strong>3077<\/strong> and a BMW car. No details of the incident are known but the car hit the front of the tram causing some damage. No injuries were reported. The scene was not cleared for an hour during which time services were unable to travel through St Peter\u2019s Square.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Thursday 12th February it was time for another car to get stuck on the tracks (after a few weeks of no major incidents). The car was discovered close to Baguley and during the disruption services only ran between Cornbrook to Barlow Moor Road and from Roudthorn to Manchester Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days has seen more problems for Manchester Metrolink with cars once again causing problems. On Tuesday 10th February a car drove into a tram close to St Peter\u2019s Square and this was followed just two days later &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10325,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions\/10325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}